I was waiting for dh to pick me up outside my local shopping centre this morning and almost got into fisticuffs!
There was an elderly gentleman and his very elderly dw waiting in a car for one of the inconsiderate people who had parked their car in the handicap spot to return. His dw had an oxygen tube and many orange handicap stickers on the car. I smiled and he told me that sometimes he has to wait an hour for these people to move their cars and that he is used to it by now. It is the only handicap bay near where they need to shop and he cannot park anywhere else because she cannot walk very far.
I found this incredible!!
Cue obnoxious woman in SUV. A spot came available near the HC bay, but was not HC. The old man saw the car pulling out and slowly pulled up to go in the space. Horrible woman in SUV sped over to beat him to it and started shouting and honking at the poor guy. He got a bit rattled and eventually just pulled out (probably in fear for his life, she was ranting like a mad cow!)
I saw all of this and walked over to this woman and told her that they were HC and she probably should have let them have the spot as they had been waiting 20 minutes for a HC spot to be available. She then started on me saying how was she to know they were HC, I said the orange HC stickers and parking permit...oh and the elderly woman with the oxygen tube!!!!
She was really defensive and shouting, which is what tipped me off that deep down she knew she was wrong.
She eventually just walked towards the shop doors ( again!!) and told me to argue with someone else! I just shouted at her to have a nice day.
It really has ruined my day that people act this way. I really think they deserved more respect than that! Ughhh, people sometimes. All I know is that I am rasing my dc to be good people so that 30 years from now that b*tch wont be in the same position.
Disgusting!! I am off for a coffee (and maybe a biscuit!) to make me feel better. Sorry for the rant.